Customer satisfaction and client orientation concepts are needed in all service providing organisations, including those engaged in construction and infrastructure provision within the public sector where the public perception about their services is at its lowest. This study measures the expectations and perceptions of various service elements among clients of Military Engineer Services (MES) ...

The role of non-Northern capitals within the corporate food system is a matter increasing debate regime literature. This article intervenes on this discussion by proposing that Arab Gulf states are new capital system. It argues emphasis state, which has drawn definitions mercantilism, led to exceptional and reifying treatment entrant. As result, analytical focus obfuscated manner such as have a...

Abstract Parts with an auxetic structure, which exhibit negative Poisson’s ratio, can be associated a novel class of smart materials. Such interesting property has been widely explored, over the time, for different applications, i.e., medical, automotive, robotic and aeronautic field. However, research about design analysis behavior is still on way. In this paper, 2D re-entrant honeycomb struct...

Thai manufacturing SMEs have played a major role in developing Thai economy, social and employment. In this situation, they have been confronted by forceful overseas competitors, especially in lowcost producers such as China, India, Vietnam, etc. They need to upgrade organisational performance in order to increasing their international competitiveness. However, most of Thai manufacturing SMEs h...

This study adopted the organizational learning perspective to examine relevant types of management accounting information required by advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) for attaining improved production performance. First, we investigated the relationship between the level of AMT usage and the amount of information provided by management accounting information systems (MAISs). The results ...

In the ®eld of manufacturing, there is a need to develop large-scale manufacturing information systems. This is especially true in the Japanese steel manufacturing industry where CIM is the core management technology. But developing such systems requires large amounts of time and manpower, and furthermore, these type of projects are very dif®cult to manage. Therefore, in order to ease the proce...

Spectrummanagement based on private commons is argued to be a realistic scenario for cognitive radio deployment within the current mobile market structure. A scenario is proposed where a secondary entrant operator leases spectrum from a primary incumbent operator. The secondary operator innovates incorporating cognitive radio technology, and it competes in quality of service and price against t...

Fracture toughness of re-entrant foam materials with a negative Poisson's ratio is explored experimentally as a function of permanent volumetric compression ratio, a processing variable. JIC values of toughness of negative Poisson's ratio open cell copper foams are enhanced by 80%, 130%, and 160% for permanent volumetric compression ratio values of 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0, respectively, compared to t...

There is a close interrelationship between atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (AFL). Atrial fibrillation of variable duration precedes the onset of AFL in almost all instances; during AF, the functional components needed to complete the AFL re-entrant circuit, principally a line of block (LoB) between the vena cavae, are formed; if this LoB does not form, classical AFL does not develop...